196. Editorial Note
At the same time Ambassador Bohlen was having lunch with the two members of the Soviet Delegation (see supra), James Hagerty held a press conference to review the day’s proceedings. A verbatim transcript of the conference is in Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 63 D 123, CF 504.
At 1:15 p.m. Secretary of State Dulles, accompanied by McCardle, Bowie, Phleger, and Beam, lunched with Prime Minister Faure at the Villa Pervoisier. No record of the conversation at the luncheon has been found in Department of State files.
Sometime during the afternoon of July 19 a member of the British Delegation gave Secretary Dulles an informal memorandum on the Vietnamese elections. No record of this meeting has been found in Department of State files, but the text of the memorandum was transmitted in Secto 42 from Geneva, July 19. (Ibid., Central Files, 396.1–GE/7–1955)
At 3 p.m. the United States Delegation held its first full staff meeting at the Hotel du Rhone, attended by both President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles. No record of this meeting has been found in Department of State files, but it is described as lasting only “a few minutes”. (Merchant, Recollections, page 34)
Apparently after the staff meeting, President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles met privately, presumably to discuss the Heads of Government meeting at 4 p.m. No record of such a meeting has been found in Department of State files or at the Eisenhower Library, but it appears as an entry in the President’s appointments for July 19. (Eisenhower Library, Whitman File)